It started off as a regular Nativity Story with Joseph and Mary expecting a child. But then when the baby was there some things went a little bit the other way.
When Joseph heared that he wasn't the father, he and his wife were ashamed and were bound to wash the kid's dipers.
By means of breastfeeding by a blond angel the kid grew fastly.
But when it became too crowded with people who came for the comet Halley to see, he took his bike and drove to Jerusalem to find his real father.
Outside the gate he yelled to let them in and the Romans did.
In a pub he had a drink with his father and argued with him. Frustrated he harrassed Mary Magdalene and Benedicte, but was soon arrested for this.

Jesus was sent to Rome as a galleyslave.
"Do I know you" he said to a man called Spartacus who was rowing beside him. "Shut up and row" Spartacus said.
On arrival in Rome Jesus managed to escape and did what the Romans did: fooling around and having fun.
So Jesus ended up with a harem of girls and lots of disciples.
They decided to go elsewhere. So they took the Titanic to London.
On the voyage to UK Matthew fell overboard and after a search Jesus gave up and said: Well he can be replaced.
Then his biographer started crying because he had to rewrite his Bible now.
"Don't worry Jesus said, we'll make up another story"
On arrival in England they looked for a place to live and they found a large manor in the swamps in the North of England.
The Community grew wildly and on a given moment Jesus and Mary Magdalene, his present wife, heared about new opporunities in a New Land discovered in the West.
They shipped in with a lot of followers on the "Mayflower"
Part 2 ends when they started a new community in Boston_________________

Rewriting fairytales and fiction like you do there can be a dangerous pastime since people taking those kinds of stories a bit too seriously will be offended (not "might", but "will"). Maybe you should write your own unique stories instead of base the story on previously written fairytales and fiction.
We'll gladly see some of your other stories, just mind your sources _________________"Anything one man can imagine,
other men can make real."
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Leviathan12
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Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:58 am Post subject:

I can only assume that calling other people's religious beliefs 'fairytales and fiction' "will" offend them as well...

If Chandler is only worried about the story being a derivative work, then he needn't. You can rewrite fairy tales all you like; that's how it's done. But that's not what he means, is it?

I agree that there is the potential for offense here. I would advise caution._________________I'm writing a novel in verse. 192 stanzas so far, 4 chapters completed, 52.5% the length of Eugene Onegin. Goal: 221 stanzas by March 31.

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Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject:

To avoid any hustle regarding to my funstory.

The rest of the messagelines will be placed on my own weblog.
This has been agreed upon by moderator.

Believers in whatever should be able to handle some annoyance. It's not as if they care if they annoy anybody else._________________"Welcome to the paranoia club; cheapest fees in the universe and membership lasts forever."
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void

Believers in whatever should be able to handle some annoyance. It's not as if they care if they annoy anybody else.

I don't think either of these particular comments is fair.

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Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

LadyInque wrote:

Dutchbat wrote:

Now see, if I can get the fun of improvisation back.

alien_avatar wrote:

Believers in whatever should be able to handle some annoyance. It's not as if they care if they annoy anybody else.

I don't think either of these particular comments is fair.

Oh, I agree that it's not fair, generalizations rarely are fair to everybody.

But this isn't about fairness. It's about the fact that whenever the "established" religions get involved, nothing goes, apparently.

If Dutchbat's SSTory had featured the names John, Harry & Jane, there probably wouldn't have been an issue._________________"Welcome to the paranoia club; cheapest fees in the universe and membership lasts forever."
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Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:52 am Post subject:

Lieserl wrote:

No Lieserl, not really,
But since SST is a privately owned website they can make their own
rules and by registering we agree upon that.
However I found a way to finish my story.
Helas, the fun it gave to improvise the text according to requests is now gone.

but I'm not going to be annoyed by it; they are anxious for their content, i'm not. I can live with that.
For me it's not an issue but i agree with other comments._________________

I am so sorry I missed that! Dutchbat! The time you did that was for me really late in the night.
I made many stories that we can team up and do it again....than nobody will get offended by it._________________...and in case I won't see you,
Good afternoon, good evening and good night
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